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When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.

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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

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The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings phrases images which remain there until all the particles which ...more

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No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the perm...more

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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are ...more

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after,But a lifetime burning in every moment.

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April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, c...more

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Poetry, if it is not to be a lifeless repetition of forms, must be constantly exploring "the frontiers of the spirit." But these frontiers are not lik...more